Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938)

Evening Tones

Details

Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938)
Evening Tones
signed with artist's monogram 'OBLümner' (lower center)--signed again on the lower tacking edge; signed again and inscribed with title on the stretcher
oil on canvas
14 1/8 x 20 in. (35.9 x 50.8 cm.)

Provenance

The estate of the artist.
Acquired by the present owner by 1963.

Exhibited

Minneapolis, Minnesota, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Oscar Florianus Bluemner, March 1939, no. 41
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects Twentieth Century, October-November 1963

Lot Essay

This work, executed during 1911-1917, was also titled Bronx River at Mt. Vernon. The painting is one of three heretofore unlocated early oils by Oscar Bluemner, and is documented, along with record sketches, in Bluemner's first Painting Diary (Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art, New York, Mircofilm Roll 339: Frame 114 [1911]; Frame 482 [1917]).

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